Amazon Fresh

Uh, you might have seen in some of our previous earning call-- earnings calls, you know, Andy Jassy, our CEO, has talked, you know, a lot about, you know, where we situate in this space already.

You know, we're over a hundred billion dollars in gross sales right now, and that doesn't even include Whole Foods Market or Amazon Fresh.

Uh, customers for years have been stocking up their pantries in, in many cases with what we would call sort of the center-of-aisle, uh, items.

And so we've got a great foundation there, and what I'm excited about is helping lead the work for how do we make sure we can make-- how we can have those perishable offerings available for our customers in the same way that they buy everything else from amazon.com? And that's been a, a big focus for us this year.

Right.

And that, you know, whether it is, you know, everything from the organic offerings at Whole Foods Market to, you know, having great private brands like Amazon Grocery, which we just launched earlier this year, um, unique products that you can't find anyplace else.

And you're coming to Amazon and Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh because of the differentiation that we can, we can provide.

And at the same time, we're making those things, you know, easier and accessible on how you buy those items together, which again, uh, helps support the-- supports the broader flywheel.

They're saying it's zero carbon, and you can already buy it there.

So it's available at Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh online.

Chefs can buy it and use it in restaurants, okay? There's one here in America, in Kansas City.

It's actually the world's largest underground business complex.

Uh, so we actually had pretty significant growth in the beginning as a direct-to-consumer entity.

And then, you know, Amazon Fresh came on the scene.

There's, you know, there's other, like, local delivery companies out there, and then the meal kit craze started.

So I did go out and try to raise capital my first, like, couple years of, of the business.